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pranaman

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Hi, I created a digital design that I have available on some print-on-demand sites, where people can order the design on a t-shirt, mug, sticker, etc.

I want to promote it more. Wondering if I ought to get a trademark or copyright or something to protect it from being copied.

Does anyone have any ideas on this?
 
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Charnell

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To be completely honest, you're fighting an uphill battle trying to protect your print-on-demand IP. You're in a spot where if you start selling a lot of one design, the scavengers will come out and copy it. It's copyrighted or trademarked? They'll change enough to get around that.
 

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Thanks. I read that it's protected kind of just by making and posting, and that if I can show that I uploaded it before they did and and they did not change it, then I can have it removed.
 

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To be completely honest, you're fighting an uphill battle trying to protect your print-on-demand IP. You're in a spot where if you start selling a lot of one design, the scavengers will come out and copy it. It's copyrighted or trademarked? They'll change enough to get around that.
As Stephen Key says, "speed to market!!" wins. But that's more to do with inventions and patenting rather than a tshirt design.
 
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